Chicken Mole with Avocado Salad

[Cliff Bartlett]

Chicken Mole sounded good, but I wanted to do it from scratch. Anticipated some high heat so sided it up with a nice Avocado Salad with Tomatoes and a Toasted Cumin Vinaigrette. Here goes.

Had some leg quarters in the freezer so I thawed and separated the leg from the thigh. Placed pieces in a brine of kosher salt, brown sugar, crushed garlic cloves, and a couple of bay leaves. Left in brine for little over an hour.

Used a dry rub consisting of ancho chili powder, granulated garlic, kosher salt, cumin, onion powder, cinnamon and ground black pepper. Back in fridge for another hour.

Got to work on my Mole Sauce. Sauteed some onion. After a couple of minutes added chopped garlic and cooked around another minute.

Added a can of canned diced tomatoes, 3 ounces of bitter sweet chocolate bar, chopped toasted almonds, cinnamon, cumin, a couple of re-hydrated ancho chiles, two huge adobo chiles and a good tablespoon of the adobo sauce. Simmered five minutes.

After simmering I stirred it up and transferred to our food processor and added some chicken stock and purred until smooth. I'll spare you the food processor shot!

The sauce.

Whipped together my salad.

Got the chicken going.

Flip.

Brushed on the mole sauce.

More sauce and moved off the heat.

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Added a third application of sauce and brought in the house.

Plated it up.

This was amazingly delicious. Had a very subtle, slow, cumulative, sneak up on you heat. What a tremendous flavor. Had a ton of fun with this cook and highly recommend Chicken Mole. Thanks for looking.

 

[ChuckO]

Chicken Mole sounded good, but I wanted to do it from scratch. Anticipated some high heat so sided it up with a nice Avocado Salad with Tomatoes and a Toasted Cumin Vinaigrette

Mole from scratch!!!! Most impressive Cliff. I've only recently discovered mole, and I thought it was good. I can't imagine what it's like from scratch. Excellent cooks. Enjoy today / tonight cuz a nasty heat wave hits starting tomorrow, and Labor Day weekend is going to be really ugly

 

[Robert-R]

Yer the man, Cliff! Looks killer. Lot of work in that cook. I'm sure it was delicious.

However.... I've got a mole cook from scratch in the planning stage, too.
This is not the last mole thread around here.

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

This is not the last mole thread around here.

Can't wait to see it done by The Master!

 

[Rich G]

Now that's a mole I would make! Most recipes have AT LEAST 20-30 ingredients!

Looks great, Cliff!

R

 

[Rich Dahl]

Amazing just amazing. Did you have a recipe for it or just wing it ?

 

[Rich Dahl]

Cliff, got curious when Chuck said you guys were going to have a heat wave. Pulled up Redding and Phoenix, you guys are going to be hotter than Phoenix, didn't think that was possible. Stay cool.. if you can.

 

[Barb D]

Cliff, you outdid yourself again that is fantastic cook. I'd be happy to take a plate of that any time. Like Rich said try and stay cool.

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Amazing just amazing. Did you have a recipe for it or just wing it ?

Rich.. our wifi has been down all day. Doing this on my phone. I used a recipe that's bookmarked on my browser. Can't get to it until I get my laptop back. I think it was Cooks. Com or Food Network. One of those.

 

[Jim Lampe]

Great Mole, Cliff! Looks DELICIOUS!!
Mole is a bigtime favourite here and has been forever!